Novell Audit 2.0 can be installed on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 9 or Red Hat Linux AS and ES (3 and 4).
IMPORTANT:When you install the full version of Novell Audit, the license file (*.nlf) is installed with the product and the product is automatically activated; that is, you can configure all the product channels and instrumentations.
If you install the Novell Audit Starter Pack, the product is not licensed and you have only limited functionality. If you want to upgrade to the full version, you must purchase a product license. For more information on activating the full version of Novell Audit, see Section 3.5, Activating Novell Audit.
To install Novell Audit on Linux:
Log in as root on the host.
Enter the following commands at the Linux console to mount the Novell Audit installation CD and go to the setup directory for the Novell Audit Linux install:
From the setup directory for the Novell Audit Linux install, enter the following command at the Linux console to begin the installation:
./pinstall.lin
If you receive a Permission Denied error when attempting to execute the install script, you might need to grant execute rights to pinstall.lin by running chmod 755 pinstall.lin.
Accept the license agreement.
Select your install options.
To add the Novell Audit schema extensions, enter the user name and password of an administrator with rights to the root of the eDirectory tree. This logs you into the AuditExt utility.
NOTE:If the admin object is not in the same context as the current server, you must use the object’s fully distinguished name (for example, .Admin.Accounts.Finance.YourCo).
After logging in to AuditExt, select from the following options:
When finished, select
.When the installation is complete, the Secure Logging Server automatically launches.
Choose if you want to load the Platform Agent.
If you select logevent.conf).
, you are asked if you want to overwrite the pre-existing Platform Agent configuration file (Choose if you want to load the eDirectory Instrumentation.
Novell Audit adds the following command to the ndsmodules.conf file to automatically load the eDirectory Instrumentation with eDirectory:
auditDS auto #NSure Audit Platform Agent
NOTE:On eDirectory 8.7, the path to the ndsmodules.conf file is /usr/lib/nds-modules/ndsmodules.conf. On eDirectory 8.8, the path is /etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/nds-modules/ndsmodules.conf.
Remove this command if you do not want the eDirectory instrumentation to automatically load.
To manually start the eDirectory instrumentation, enter:
ndstrace -c “load auditDS”
After you install Novell Audit, iManager 2.0 or above detects that you have a new plug-in and prompts you to install it.